There are a few things still on our roadmap, like more auto-post functionality, but don’t worry it’ll all be ready soon.

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This is such a cool feature…wow! I have a photo blog on Posterous, and I was thinking it would have been a better idea to create it on WP since WP has such good photo blog themes, now, this is easy…peasy for me :)

In some ways, Posterous beats wordpress though. I really like how I can just attach music files to my e-mail & send to Posterous, and Posterous just converts it automatically to an embedded player on a post on the blog! Much more convenient than in wordpress.

This would have been great two months ago, when I manually copied my posts from Posterous onto WordPress. ;) Still, smart move, even if it’s too late for me. Posterous was a good intro for my blog group.

i never even heard of ‘posterous’, i came to know about it from your post. it’s good you’ve made arrangements to take bloggers from there into wordpress, because there’s simply no replacement for wordpress at all. it’s good that they have a new idea, but wordpress is our final and permanent choice.

This is nice for people that want to leave Posterous and come to WordPress.com for more features. However I like having the two different platforms and I post completely different things to Posterous than I do on my WordPress.com blog. But you are so right about WordPress.com having more features and being more flexible. Thanks for adding new features for us.

hmm…so I tried importing my Posterous blog. I got an email from WordPress saying Import successful, but I don’t see the photos on my site!! I also looked at Edit Posts folder in my Dashboard, and I see only the auto-created Hello World post…is there something else I should be doing?

You say the importer will bring over “posts, tags, comments and image attachments”. What happens to PPS files or MP3 files or DOC or XLS files sent to the Posterous blog? Will those come over as well?

Also, Posterous has a really nice way of displaying those attached files, which WordPress does not have yet. Any plans to automatically embed PPS or DOC or MP3 files? (I’m aware I can embed MP3 files now, but it’s still not as straightforward as embedding images or videos).

Thanks for this great tool! I’ve been tossing around the notion of moving my posterous to a self hosted word press blog for the past week. Is this tool only for a wordpress.com blog, or would I have to do a path of importing it to wordpress.com and then moving it to my own server? Thanks in advance for your help!

Gave the import a whirl earlier this evening. I was dumbfounded by how simple and quick it was. Only had to tweak a couple image headers in a few posts. Otherwise flawless. Now to prep my hosted WP theme and export out to that! Thanks!

Very nice feature guys, I am starting to out grow posterous and this is great. However I think I will wait until you support more than just mp3 embeds. Also, Posterous’ commenting is so easy to use and comments help spread my blog on twitter which I appreciate. I don’t see that on wordpress.com.

Congrats on the importer!
Posterous users who are importing into WordPress: just make sure that you don’t delete your Posterous blog since WordPress won’t rehost your media. It’ll also not support the audio or video that you’ve posted to your Posterous. Makes you feel like you’re “graduating” to a blog platform that does less. You can always just post to Posterous and have it autopost to your WordPress (and gazillion other sites).